Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus misfit with a guitar. Bob Burnett, 21, friendly, eager, misleadingly slight of build, is Wesleyan's pole-vault champion (his record: 12 ft. S in.), vice president of the student government, and an outstanding scholar. Son of a Boston investment broker who also runs a cemetery in Mystic, Conn., he is majoring in government and wants to be a lawyer. Last summer he went to Nigeria under a program called Operation Crossroads, showed Nigerians how to make cement blocks and helped them build a community center. Steve Trott, 21, tall, handsome, president of the fraternity (a local...
...will ever see the little particle, but theoretical physicists-those mystic prophets of science-calculated several years ago that an unknown heavy meson probably can exist. Like the neutron, they figured, it would have no electric charge, so it would leave no track in a cloud or bubble chamber. They were sure it would disintegrate so quickly that other signs of its brief career would be hard to find. But the theoreticians considered the undiscovered particle so important that they named it omega in advance, implying that it might be the last unknown particle left in nature's locker...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...
...Track Bets. Among S.P. oldtimers there is a mystic conviction that ''the Southern Pacific has always been able to find the right chief executive for the time." In a time of diminishing importance for railroads, Russell has launched the Southern Pacific into as many off-track enterprises as the Government would allow. "We're in the business of supplying transportation to our customers," says he, "and if customers leave us, we have an obligation to follow them...
...makes a splendid animated advertisement for Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, whose clothes she models with crisp Technicolored distinction. And there are some heart-stirring shots of quilted green land and shimmering lakes, of whaling boats and silver-spired churches taken on location around Windsor, Old Saybrook, Mystic and Essex. Audiences will also learn about tobacco-possibly more than they care to. Item: those acres of flimsy shade-tobacco tents (which don't quite obscure the dedicated dalliance of Troy and girl at the fadeout) are made of cheesecloth, which filters sunlight and raises the temperature around the plants...